This blog is going to cover me and my quest to dispelling fracking from Ojai valley. I will go to these fracking sites they put on homes and try to see if any of the side effects of fracking are breaking laws. But first I need volunteers to help me out, give me some comments and ideas. Soon I hope to have a team of five people for our investigations. If you are living somewhere in California maybe in a smaller town with a population of like 7,000 or maybe more help me out. What I will be looking for is maybe an endangered animal living in the area or maybe some of the fracking fluid that they use got into someones water supply. And educate yourselves I have done so for a fifth grade school project this year. It is super important that we know what oil and natural gas drillers are doing to our planet. Because if we don't clean up our fricking act soon we wont be able to live on earth. So help me help you and you help all of what we cherish and know today.
Earl
Marvin
Great idea for a project Earl! Our choice of energy resources will have lasting impact on the planet and our way of life. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any completely ideal energy options. We currently use fossil fuels for almost all aspects of our quality of life (life electricity, lighting, transportation, polymers, chemicals and clothing). I'm personally hopeful for shifting to renewable chemicals (which I'm working on at BASF) and electric vehicles, while our electric grid transitions from coal to natural gas and then to non-fossil fuels (solar, wind and nuclear).
ReplyDeleteI'd love to help you out on your project where I can. Here are some resources that you might want to check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_gas_in_the_United_States
http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/
That EIA website has some very cool interactive maps to see where the shale gas drilling is happening. It turns out that shale gas is pretty new to California and only represented 0.8% of the 2013 production in the US. Any drilling near Ojai is targeted to the Monterey shale formation, which was formed during the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago!). Here is the company drilling there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venoco
Great idea for a project Earl! Our choice of energy resources will have lasting impact on the planet and our way of life. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any completely ideal energy options. We currently use fossil fuels for almost all aspects of our quality of life (life electricity, lighting, transportation, polymers, chemicals and clothing). I'm personally hopeful for shifting to renewable chemicals (which I'm working on at BASF) and electric vehicles, while our electric grid transitions from coal to natural gas and then to non-fossil fuels (solar, wind and nuclear).
ReplyDeleteI'd love to help you out on your project where I can. Here are some resources that you might want to check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_gas_in_the_United_States
http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/
That EIA website has some very cool interactive maps to see where the shale gas drilling is happening. It turns out that shale gas is pretty new to California and only represented 0.8% of the 2013 production in the US. Any drilling near Ojai is targeted to the Monterey shale formation, which was formed during the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago!). Here is the company drilling there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venoco
chank you
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